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Korean prisons make US prisons look like the Ritz Carlton. This may have changed since I lived there in the early 2000s, but they shave your head and make you

Korean prisons make US prisons look like the Ritz Carlton. This may have changed since I lived there in the early 2000s, but they shave your head and make you perform hard labor for 12 hours a day, usually farming to raise most of the food that you will eat while incarcerated. In the South Korean Army, seniors beat juniors with impunity and abuse them so brazenly that US soldiers get briefings to "mind your own business" when they arrive and again before any joint operations with the ROKA-- and the prisons are worse. My roommate when I lived there was a KATUSA, a Korean soldier who spoke English who was embedded in the US Army, and he was happy every single day because every Korean male has to be in the army and "in the US army they don't beat the shit out of you". In the US a fraudster like Kwon will go to a facility like FCI Otisville. https://www.google.com/maps/place/41°29'47.0%22N+74°31'38.0%22W/@41.4954251,-74.5276934,587m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d41.496389!4d-74.527222?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/place/41°29'47.0%22N+74°31'38.0%... Please note the tennis courts and baseball diamond.

Eisenstein 4y ago
Have you seen a Korean prison or heard first hand accounts of people who have experienced it?
- rocket_surgeron 4y ago
  You can see the prisoners toiling in the fields along every road a prison is located at, and there were several along the routes I drove weekly. The US-Korean SOFA (status of forces agreement) was amended in the mid-2000s to segregate US military personnel in Korean prisons from the general population and: 1. Allow them to bathe at least once every five days 2. Prevent forced labor requirements from exceeding 12 hours per day 3. Provide food prepared to the standard of the US military in lieu of Korean food 4. Provide undergarments like underwear and socks to supplement their prison-issued smocks https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/Publications/Regulations/USFK-Reg-1-44-Criminal-Jurisdiction-Under-Art-XXII-SOFA-2017.pdf https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/Publications/Regu... Prior to this change labor often exceeded 12 hours per day, the physically larger US personnel were collapsing due to malnutrition, bathing was not permitted, nor were socks and underwear. When I was there, pre-SOFA amendment the briefings were very detailed about the conditions under which prisoners lived as part of a "scared straight" initiative-- "Don't fuck up or you'll wish you were in Leavenworth, here is the shit, with photos, of what South Korean prisoners go through." A British consulate guide notes the meagre diet and harsh conditions prisoners operate under. >Meals are adequate, but very Spartan. British Nationals sometimes cannot fully adjust to the Korean diet. Funds from the prison work programme can be used to buy a small quantity of supplemental foods. >The Korean authorities do not tolerate dissent from prisoners (e.g. assaulting or talking back to guards, or for refusing to co-operate or follow instructions). Their methods for handling dissent can be harsh, and on occasion has resulted in physical abuse. Such abuse is unacceptable, and we will take it up with the Korean authorities on your behalf if you so wish. You may also raise it with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/944193/South_Korea_Prisoner_Pack_December_2020.odt https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Eisenstein 4y ago

Have you seen a Korean prison or heard first hand accounts of people who have experienced it?

rocket_surgeron 4y ago
You can see the prisoners toiling in the fields along every road a prison is located at, and there were several along the routes I drove weekly. The US-Korean SOFA (status of forces agreement) was amended in the mid-2000s to segregate US military personnel in Korean prisons from the general population and: 1. Allow them to bathe at least once every five days 2. Prevent forced labor requirements from exceeding 12 hours per day 3. Provide food prepared to the standard of the US military in lieu of Korean food 4. Provide undergarments like underwear and socks to supplement their prison-issued smocks https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/Publications/Regulations/USFK-Reg-1-44-Criminal-Jurisdiction-Under-Art-XXII-SOFA-2017.pdf https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/Publications/Regu... Prior to this change labor often exceeded 12 hours per day, the physically larger US personnel were collapsing due to malnutrition, bathing was not permitted, nor were socks and underwear. When I was there, pre-SOFA amendment the briefings were very detailed about the conditions under which prisoners lived as part of a "scared straight" initiative-- "Don't fuck up or you'll wish you were in Leavenworth, here is the shit, with photos, of what South Korean prisoners go through." A British consulate guide notes the meagre diet and harsh conditions prisoners operate under. >Meals are adequate, but very Spartan. British Nationals sometimes cannot fully adjust to the Korean diet. Funds from the prison work programme can be used to buy a small quantity of supplemental foods. >The Korean authorities do not tolerate dissent from prisoners (e.g. assaulting or talking back to guards, or for refusing to co-operate or follow instructions). Their methods for handling dissent can be harsh, and on occasion has resulted in physical abuse. Such abuse is unacceptable, and we will take it up with the Korean authorities on your behalf if you so wish. You may also raise it with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/944193/South_Korea_Prisoner_Pack_December_2020.odt https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...